Cortez: A Texas Tale

Cortez is your typical small Texas town, where the weekly football game takes place on Friday nights.It’s a town where more people drive on gravel roads than paved roads.It’s a town where the cops know everyone, and they know everything everyone does.But for DW, Cortez is a town he has to leave; DEAD or ALIVE.Cortez is a coming of age crime story about DW, who is a high school teenager who knows the difference between right and wrong. But when life comes at him head on he is forced to make some decisions that most teenagers never have to think about. Without any adult guidance in DW’s life, he makes a decision to start selling drugs to help his best friend who has become addicted to crack. The money comes quickly and more easily than working on the farm. As soon as he pays back the money for his friend he continues to make some money for himself. Quickly DW’s luck runs out and instead of getting busted, a corrupt local cop who works with a local drug dealer starts to demand money. DW wants to quit selling drugs but the cop continues to demand payments. Eventually DW makes the right decision and goes straight to get his life back in order. One night after going to the movies with his girlfriend, DW and her get into a fight. She leaves his house, and is found the next morning on the side of the road dead with drugs. The whole town blames DW for her death, but he is the only one who knows who actually did it. After getting kicked out of school, DW goes out and proves to everyone that he is not the person they are making him out to be. He fixes his life and signs up for the Army but before he leaves he has one thing left he needs to do. Drugs, murder, guns, money, family, friends, school, cops, and a girl all play a part into Cortez and DW’s life.